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Technology Stocks : Digimarc (DMRC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blankmind who wrote (23)	12/11/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 266

digimarc has a way of searching the web for images with digimarc watermarks. MarcSpider The best way to track your images on the Web. MarcSpider crawls the most highly trafficked public areas of the world wide Web, searching for Digimarc-watermarked images and reporting back details about when and where they are found. This service allows content developers like Web designers, photographers, stock photography agencies and publishers of entertainment, sports and news images to track their work as it travels the Web. MarcSpider is a great service for tracking your images in marketing programs, monitoring the use of images, and identifying potential image usage infringements. Please note that our searches are limited in scope by the indexing capabilites of search engines. Features: Constantly searches the public Web for Digimarc-watermarked images. Unlimited access to online reports about where your images are found. Presents thumbnails of the images found, with hot-links to the pages where MarcSpider discovered them. Maintains an archive of image finds, searchable by date range, so you don't miss information. Combines Digimarc's Web crawler with a data feed from one of the leading Web search engines, for broad Web coverage. View a MarcSpider Sample report. Requirements: Either a Basic or Smart Digimarc ID (register now if you haven't already) and a MarcSpider Subscription. Price: Annual MarcSpider subscriptions are $1,200.00. This includes unlimited image finds and report access during your 12-month subscription period. Special Offer! Digimarc is currently offering a promotional package including a one year MarcSpider subscription, a Smart ID, and a copy of the Batch Embedder Tool for only $1,500.00 (a savings of nearly $300). *Note to our valued customers: We want to share with you some research findings that will help you better understand the performance of our MarcSpider search service. We have received comments from time to time about MarcSpider failing to find some placements of our customers' images. In light of the recent publication of a study of search engine coverage of the Internet, we are taking this opportunity to clarify a related limitation of our service that this study has brought to our attention. We rely on crawler data from a major search engine provider. It has never been clear to us the extent of coverage of the Web provided by our vendor or similar internet search engines. An NEC Research Institute study shows that even the best of today's search engines can cover only 15% of the Web, and that all the search engines combined reach only 42% of the Internet. MarcSpider's searches are constrained by these same limitations since we receive our crawler data from a major search engine (which is among the best performers). This means that MarcSpider is not likely to find all your watermarked images, particularly when they appear on sites that are not very heavily indexed by the major directories and search engines. We hope that search engine coverage of the Web will improve over time. In the meantime, we trust you will continue to find MarcSpider to be a valuable tool in your online marketing and copyright protection programs. ¸ 1999 Digimarc